Alright here’s the full story it was all kind of an accident;
* By the way don’t do this I have no idea what the risks were
What happened was both my roommate and I had to move. My roommate was a math professor and incredibly thin. In fact in the years we lived together I hardly saw him eat a handful of times, always the smallest portions and often just a bowl of rice.
I have this old fashioned attitude towards never wasting. I have no disease but to protect an old graft I take cefadroxil 1g per day spaced in two doses. I also had some amoxicillin that was left over but since I was moving and didn’t want to carry or throw it out I took that in addition at 3g per day, spaced out in three doses as originally prescribed.
Then my roommate left behind about a quarter of a large bag of rice. Lundberg organic short grain brown.
I hadn’t budgeted for food and was very busy after the move so I copied him and bought a cheap rice cooker without a non stick coating and started to cook what was left, and at the time I didn’t know you were supposed to wash rice before cooking it. I cooked one bowl of rice at lunchtime from the small cup provided with no spices or sauce or other ingredients and forgot to eat the rest of the day. Next day I did the same and again no hunger and then it occurred to me that I had eaten the smallest fraction of my normal calorie intake. It was also true that all the places I habitually visited for food were gone. Now I do weigh myself regularly. Before I moved about 80 days ago I weighed 215lbs. Today I’m at 175ish give or take a few water weight pounds for error, and the lowest ever recorded for me was 184ish in 2008. I’m 5 11
After about three weeks of only the bowl of rice and a glass of water I wondered what would happen if I skipped it entirely. Would I run low on energy or pass out? I wanted to know. I was simply never hungry. Even though walking past restaurants had a pleasant smell it didn’t effect me and I never thought about or craved food at all period. As it turned out fasting was easy. I no longer need to eat at all I just continually burn my reserves. It’s totally unbelievable and kind of awesome. I’ve been fat without exception since I was a teen. I’m dropping about 1.2lbs a day and walking a good ten miles as well no fatigue. That’s 35,000 steps on the pedometer for another 1000 calories. I don’t feel any different and plenty of energy. I haven't eaten a bite of food for a week although I do drink strictly one glass of milk daily for protein and take a multivitamin.
So my speculation on what has happened here is;
1) I killed off the dominant gut bacteria that caused hunger with a combination of antibiotics and starvation through a low calorie diet
2) The bacteria on the rice recolonized my gut and so I’m no longer hungry
That’s wild conjecture to be fair but something very significant has changed, because I used to stuff my face non stop. My hunger disappeared at 90 degrees and never returned
So that’s the story
* BTW the amoxicillin ran out about two weeks after I moved, was a pretty large container. Also they were expired. I really should learn to throw things away. I’m also saving a fortune on food
* By the way don’t do this I have no idea what the risks were
What happened was both my roommate and I had to move. My roommate was a math professor and incredibly thin. In fact in the years we lived together I hardly saw him eat a handful of times, always the smallest portions and often just a bowl of rice.
I have this old fashioned attitude towards never wasting. I have no disease but to protect an old graft I take cefadroxil 1g per day spaced in two doses. I also had some amoxicillin that was left over but since I was moving and didn’t want to carry or throw it out I took that in addition at 3g per day, spaced out in three doses as originally prescribed.
Then my roommate left behind about a quarter of a large bag of rice. Lundberg organic short grain brown. I hadn’t budgeted for food and was very busy after the move so I copied him and bought a cheap rice cooker without a non stick coating and started to cook what was left, and at the time I didn’t know you were supposed to wash rice before cooking it. I cooked one bowl of rice at lunchtime from the small cup provided with no spices or sauce or other ingredients and forgot to eat the rest of the day. Next day I did the same and again no hunger and then it occurred to me that I had eaten the smallest fraction of my normal calorie intake. It was also true that all the places I habitually visited for food were gone. Now I do weigh myself regularly. Before I moved about 80 days ago I weighed 215lbs. Today I’m at 175ish give or take a few water weight pounds for error, and the lowest ever recorded for me was 184ish in 2008. I’m 5 11
After about three weeks of only the bowl of rice and a glass of water I wondered what would happen if I skipped it entirely. Would I run low on energy or pass out? I wanted to know. I was simply never hungry. Even though walking past restaurants had a pleasant smell it didn’t effect me and I never thought about or craved food at all period. As it turned out fasting was easy. I no longer need to eat at all I just continually burn my reserves. It’s totally unbelievable and kind of awesome. I’ve been fat without exception since I was a teen. I’m dropping about 1.2lbs a day and walking a good ten miles as well no fatigue. That’s 35,000 steps on the pedometer for another 1000 calories. I don’t feel any different and plenty of energy. I haven't eaten a bite of food for a week although I do drink strictly one glass of milk daily for protein and take a multivitamin.
So my speculation on what has happened here is;
1) I killed off the dominant gut bacteria that caused hunger with a combination of antibiotics and starvation through a low calorie diet
2) The bacteria on the rice recolonized my gut and so I’m no longer hungry
That’s wild conjecture to be fair but something very significant has changed, because I used to stuff my face non stop. My hunger disappeared at 90 degrees and never returned
So that’s the story
* BTW the amoxicillin ran out about two weeks after I moved, was a pretty large container. Also they were expired. I really should learn to throw things away. I’m also saving a fortune on food